Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sophia School Corporation has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and the same count of distinct art units. This distribution between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a diverse range of technical subject matter being prosecuted simultaneously. For a practitioner, this variety suggests that the corporation's research is broad and interacts with several different specialized groups at the patent office.
BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With 4 total pending office actions and multiple distinct examiners, the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 action. The involvement of multiple distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related research spans several different specialized examination groups. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the diverse requirements and individual styles of multiple examiners across various units to manage the portfolio effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1 | 58.6% | +40.5% |
| GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1 | 36.0% | +46.4% |
| KUPP, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1 | 85.7% | +7.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17943181 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND DISPLAY | KUPP, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 34d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292449 | ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID FOR INDUCING SPECIFIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | — |
| 18280253 | TEST SUBSTANCE DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION AGENT COMPOSITION, DETECTION APPARATUS, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION METHOD AND INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION METHOD | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18011869 | METHOD OF DETECTING ENDOTOXIN, ENDOTOXIN DETECTION DEVICE, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, METHOD OF PRODUCING PURIFIED WATER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INJECTION WATER | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 22d |
| 18280253 | TEST SUBSTANCE DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION AGENT COMPOSITION, DETECTION APPARATUS, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION METHOD AND INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION METHOD | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292449 | ARTIFICIAL NUCLEIC ACID FOR INDUCING SPECIFIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE | BELLAH, JEFFREY LAWRENCE | 1683 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18280253 | TEST SUBSTANCE DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION AGENT COMPOSITION, DETECTION APPARATUS, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION METHOD AND INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION METHOD | ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2023 |
| 18011869 | METHOD OF DETECTING ENDOTOXIN, ENDOTOXIN DETECTION DEVICE, PURIFIED WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, INJECTION WATER PRODUCTION FACILITY, METHOD OF PRODUCING PURIFIED WATER AND METHOD OF PRODUCING INJECTION WATER | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17943181 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND DISPLAY | KUPP, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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